About the role
Build the foundation of Hivebrite’s AI-powered, API-first platform — and help scale communities driving change worldwide 🌍 🚀 Hivebrite is an all-in-one community management and engagement platform. Our mission is to provide organizations with the tools they need to create impactful communities. Our SaaS platform serves customers across a variety of industries including higher education, non-profit, and corporate. Founded in 2015, today we count more than 900 customers worldwide - including Boeing, the Obama Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, the University of Notre Dame, the U.S. Naval Academy, the British Heart Foundation, the Imperial College London, the P&G Alumni France, and Le Wagon Alumni. We employ over 170 people across our entities in Paris, New York, the UK, and Sydney, and 30+ nationalities are represented in our team! 🌍 At Hivebrite, we believe in the importance of balancing your work commitments and personal life. You’re able to have a real impact on meaningful communities while prioritizing your personal life and goals. Our work policy encourages a healthy work-life harmony with a flexible schedule.We also have many initiatives to keep our global team connected, offering opportunities to meet and socialize with team members virtually and in-person! 👋 For these reasons, we were awarded Best Hybrid Place to Work by BuiltIn in the US and Choose My Company and HappyIndex at Work in France last year! 🏆 Find out everything
about us here! Jump aboard, and join the hive! 🚀 🌟 The Opportunity Hivebrite is entering an exciting new chapter. We’re evolving our platform to meet growing customer demands with a modern, scalable, and intelligent foundation. But this isn't just about tech — Hivebrite powers thousands of communities making a difference in the world. From sustainability and education to diversity and social innovation, our platform enables meaningful connection and collective impact. Here’s what’s ahead: Decoupling our monolith into a modular, service-based architecture Replatforming to API-first , enabling richer integrations and more flexibility Infusing AI throughout — from product features (recommendations, smart workflows) to internal tooling (DevEx, CI/CD, Copilot, Cursor, Bolt) Raising the bar on performance, observability, and scalability to support a fast-growing, global user base This is a pivotal time to join. As a Senior Backend Engineer , you'll be instrumental in driving this transformation. 🌟 Our Impact Hivebrite isn’t just another SaaS platform — we power over 1,000 communities worldwide working toward real change. Our customers include As a Senior Engineer, your work will directly support these communities by making their digital spaces faster, smarter, and more impactful. 🌟 Your Role You’ll work across product and platform initiatives to: Design and build scalable backend services using Ruby, Python, Node.js/TypeScript, or Golang Lead the decomposition of our monolith into modular, service-oriented components Drive performance and reliability improvements , leveraging async queues, caching strategies, and data modeling Implement AI-powered features (personalization, automation, recommendations) in collaboration with Product and Data teams Elevate our internal developer experience , integrating AI tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and streamlining CI/CD workflows Engineer robust integrations with third-party APIs, webhooks, and event-driven systems Champion technical excellence across testing, observability, and system design Shape the technical vision , actively contributing to architecture reviews and long-term platform strategy 🌟 About You We’re looking for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and has a strong engineering backbone: Proficient in on of these stacks Ruby, Python , Node.js/TypeScript, Golang Track record of building high-scale backend systems (millions of users, high throughput, distributed architecture) Experience with service extraction and API-first designs Solid grasp of distributed systems , async processing, observability, and modern caching strategies Interest or hands-on experience with AI/ML applications in product or engineering contexts Familiar with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP), and modern DevOps tooling Collaborative, thoughtful communicator who enjoys leading cross-functional technical efforts Fluent in English (written and spoken) 🌟